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Former Attorney General John Mitchell, once Nixon's closest political adviser, was indicted for perjury and conspiracy to defraud; so was Nixon's chief campaign fund raiser, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans. The arduously prepared prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon papers was dismissed because of Government wiretapping, burglary and other misconduct...
Deadline. In fact, there are a number of laws against all the practices that Nixon's men fell into. There is obvious need for the reform of campaign funding, but the Nixon officials flagrantly violated the fund-disclosure and reporting laws already on the books. Nixon's chief fund raiser, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, in fact, had furiously tried to beat the deadline before...
Died. Matthew H. McCloskey, 80, Philadelphia builder and crack fund raiser for the Democratic Party; of cancer; in Darby, Pa. Though he built his construction company into one of the ten largest in the U.S., it was as a money raiser for the Democrats that McCloskey was best known. In 1934 he organized the first $100-a-plate dinner, and over the next 30 years he raised millions in campaign contributions. In 1962 he was appointed Ambassador to Ireland by President Kennedy...
...charge of disbursing large amounts of Republican Party secret funds for political intelligence work. Kalmbach, a Californian and a close friend of Haldeman's, handled the legal work and financial arrangements when Nixon bought his seaside home in San Clemente and has been an active Nixon fund raiser. When skittish San Diego businessmen were hesitant about bankrolling the Republican National Convention planned for their city, Kalmbach's firm got a letter from the Justice Department assuring them that their contributions would be tax deductible. By doing good for Nixon, Kalmbach has done well for himself...
...meet the high cost of justice, the defense team has a salaried staff of 25, who raise funds, do legal research, plot courtroom strategy, type, prepare press releases and copy documents. "We open the office at 6 a.m.," says Head Fund Raiser Stanley Sheinbaum, an economist formerly of the Santa Barbara Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Actually, three persons have normally been working all night duplicating, collating, indexing and distributing copies of the previous day's trial transcript, exhibits and memos...